One of the members of the first colony that arrived at Columbia, November 18, 1788 (Hamilton Co., OH). He was appointed Deacon of the Duck Creek Baptist Church
(Formerly Columbia Baptist Church). The church was named the Duck Creek Baptist Church after Duck Creek, which flows at the base of the hill on which it is built, and where the members were baptized on their admission into the church. (The name of the church is now called the Hyde Park Baptist Church.)
Unfortunately the cemetery was completely destroyed due to highway construction work; interstate 71 opened in Dec 1966 (per Cincinnati Public Library)
Service:
CONNECTICUT Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 1735 STAMFORD FAIRFIELD CO CONNECTICUT
Death: 7-11-1819 HAMILTON CO OHIO
Service Source:
CT ARCH: REV WAR, 1ST SER, VOL 36, FHL ROLL #3569, P 19B
Service Description:
1) SUFFERED LOSS IN BRITISH RAIDS
(source: Daughters of the American Revolution, Ancestor #: A039475)
Other Children:
~ Ebenezer (b. 1771, died Lexington, KY?)
~ Hanna Elizabeth "Ferris" Gibbs (b. 1786-1790, Stamford, CT; last found liv. in Charleston Township, IL in 1850; m. Elijah, mem. #10557005)
" Like all old time churches, the building is surrounded with a graveyard, in which are buried many of the old members, on whose tombstones, half covered with moss, reads: "Isaac Ferris, born July, 1735, died July, 1819" and "Margaret Wood Ferris, born 1742, died 1825."
(source: "One Hundred Years. Centennial of the Duckcreek Baptist Church. With the Service of Yesterday the Last Page in Its History is Written", submitted by Jean Hehn)
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One of the members of the first colony that arrived at Columbia, November 18, 1788 (Hamilton Co., OH). He was appointed Deacon of the Duck Creek Baptist Church
(Formerly Columbia Baptist Church). The church was named the Duck Creek Baptist Church after Duck Creek, which flows at the base of the hill on which it is built, and where the members were baptized on their admission into the church. (The name of the church is now called the Hyde Park Baptist Church.)
Unfortunately the cemetery was completely destroyed due to highway construction work; interstate 71 opened in Dec 1966 (per Cincinnati Public Library)
Service:
CONNECTICUT Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 1735 STAMFORD FAIRFIELD CO CONNECTICUT
Death: 7-11-1819 HAMILTON CO OHIO
Service Source:
CT ARCH: REV WAR, 1ST SER, VOL 36, FHL ROLL #3569, P 19B
Service Description:
1) SUFFERED LOSS IN BRITISH RAIDS
(source: Daughters of the American Revolution, Ancestor #: A039475)
Other Children:
~ Ebenezer (b. 1771, died Lexington, KY?)
~ Hanna Elizabeth "Ferris" Gibbs (b. 1786-1790, Stamford, CT; last found liv. in Charleston Township, IL in 1850; m. Elijah, mem. #10557005)
" Like all old time churches, the building is surrounded with a graveyard, in which are buried many of the old members, on whose tombstones, half covered with moss, reads: "Isaac Ferris, born July, 1735, died July, 1819" and "Margaret Wood Ferris, born 1742, died 1825."
(source: "One Hundred Years. Centennial of the Duckcreek Baptist Church. With the Service of Yesterday the Last Page in Its History is Written", submitted by Jean Hehn)
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